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+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+// This source file is part of the SwiftNIO open source project
+//
+// Copyright (c) 2025 Apple Inc. and the SwiftNIO project authors
+// Licensed under Apache License v2.0
+//
+// See LICENSE.txt for license information
+// See CONTRIBUTORS.txt for the list of SwiftNIO project authors
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+#if canImport(Testing)
+import NIOPosix
+import Testing
+
+@testable import NIOCore
+
+@Suite
+private enum AsynChannelUnixDomainSocketTests {
+    /// This is a end-to-end async channel based test.
+    ///
+    /// The server side listens on a UNIX domain socket, and the client connects to this socket.
+    ///
+    /// The server and client exchange simple, line based messages.
+    @available(macOS 14.0, iOS 17, tvOS 17, watchOS 10, *)
+    @Test()
+    static func runServer() async throws {
+        try await confirmation("Client did receive message") { clientDidReceive in
+            try await confirmation("Server did receive message") { serverDidReceive in
+                try await check(
+                    clientDidReceive: clientDidReceive,
+                    serverDidReceive: serverDidReceive
+                )
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+@available(macOS 14.0, iOS 17, tvOS 17, watchOS 10, *)
+private func check(
+    clientDidReceive: Confirmation,
+    serverDidReceive: Confirmation
+) async throws {
+    // This uses a hard-coded path.
+    //
+    // The path of a UNIX domain socket has a relatively low limit on its total
+    // length, and we thus can not put this inside some (potentially) deeply
+    // nested directory hierarchy.
+    let path = "/tmp/9ac7750dc22a066066871aadf481e31a"
+    let serverChannel = try await makeServerChannel(path: path)
+
+    try await withThrowingDiscardingTaskGroup { group in
+        try await serverChannel.executeThenClose { inbound in
+            group.addTask {
+                // Create a client connection to the server:
+                let clientChannel = try await makeClientChannel(path: path)
+                print("Executing client channel")
+                try await clientChannel.executeThenClose { inbound, outbound in
+                    print("C: Sending hello")
+                    try await outbound.write("Hello")
+
+                    var inboundIterator = inbound.makeAsyncIterator()
+                    guard let messageA = try await inboundIterator.next() else { return }
+                    print("C: Did receive '\(messageA)'")
+                    clientDidReceive.confirm()
+                    #expect(messageA == "Hello")
+
+                    try await outbound.write("QUIT")
+                }
+            }
+
+            for try await connectionChannel in inbound {
+                group.addTask {
+                    print("Handling new connection")
+                    try await handleConnection(
+                        channel: connectionChannel,
+                        serverDidReceive: serverDidReceive
+                    )
+                    print("Done handling connection")
+                }
+                break
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+private func makeServerChannel(
+    path: String
+) async throws -> NIOAsyncChannel<NIOAsyncChannel<String, String>, Never> {
+    try await ServerBootstrap(
+        group: NIOSingletons.posixEventLoopGroup
+    ).bind(
+        unixDomainSocketPath: path,
+        cleanupExistingSocketFile: true,
+        serverBackPressureStrategy: nil
+    ) { childChannel in
+        childChannel.eventLoop.makeCompletedFuture {
+            try childChannel.pipeline.syncOperations.addHandler(ByteToMessageHandler(NewlineDelimiterCoder()))
+            try childChannel.pipeline.syncOperations.addHandler(MessageToByteHandler(NewlineDelimiterCoder()))
+            return try NIOAsyncChannel<String, String>(
+                wrappingChannelSynchronously: childChannel
+            )
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+private func makeClientChannel(
+    path: String
+) async throws -> NIOAsyncChannel<String, String> {
+    try await ClientBootstrap(group: NIOSingletons.posixEventLoopGroup)
+        .connect(unixDomainSocketPath: path)
+        .flatMap { channel in
+            channel.eventLoop.makeCompletedFuture {
+                try channel.pipeline.syncOperations.addHandler(ByteToMessageHandler(NewlineDelimiterCoder()))
+                try channel.pipeline.syncOperations.addHandler(MessageToByteHandler(NewlineDelimiterCoder()))
+                return try NIOAsyncChannel<String, String>(wrappingChannelSynchronously: channel)
+            }
+        }
+        .get()
+}
+
+private func handleConnection(
+    channel: NIOAsyncChannel<String, String>,
+    serverDidReceive: Confirmation
+) async throws {
+    print("S: New channel")
+    try await channel.executeThenClose { inbound, outbound in
+        for try await message in inbound {
+            print("S: Did receive '\(message)'")
+            guard message != "QUIT" else { return }
+            serverDidReceive.confirm()
+            try await outbound.write(message)
+        }
+        print("S: Bye")
+    }
+}
+
+/// A simple newline based encoder and decoder.
+private final class NewlineDelimiterCoder: ByteToMessageDecoder, MessageToByteEncoder {
+    typealias InboundIn = ByteBuffer
+    typealias InboundOut = String
+
+    private let newLine = UInt8(ascii: "\n")
+
+    init() {}
+
+    func decode(context: ChannelHandlerContext, buffer: inout ByteBuffer) throws -> DecodingState {
+        let readableBytes = buffer.readableBytesView
+
+        if let firstLine = readableBytes.firstIndex(of: self.newLine).map({ readableBytes[..<$0] }) {
+            buffer.moveReaderIndex(forwardBy: firstLine.count + 1)
+            // Fire a read without a newline
+            context.fireChannelRead(Self.wrapInboundOut(String(buffer: ByteBuffer(firstLine))))
+            return .continue
+        } else {
+            return .needMoreData
+        }
+    }
+
+    func encode(data: String, out: inout ByteBuffer) throws {
+        out.writeString(data)
+        out.writeInteger(self.newLine)
+    }
+}
+#endif  // canImport(Testing)